Timeline for Civilization on an Earth-like planet without using waterways for transport
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| Sep 25, 2019 at 9:10 | comment | added | user28434 |
civilization that's just left the stone age. If necessary, the civilization has the wheel — wheel is not Stone Age tech at all, first wheel(not even cart wheel) appeared in Copper Age, and first cart wheel appeared in Middle Bronze Age, after they built the pyramids.
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| Sep 25, 2019 at 8:30 | answer | added | Separatrix | timeline score: 2 | |
| Sep 25, 2019 at 5:58 | answer | added | Shadowzee | timeline score: 2 | |
| Sep 25, 2019 at 5:20 | history | edited | Snowbody | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Sep 25, 2019 at 5:19 | comment | added | Snowbody | Thanks @user535733, I made some changes. God hates boats (either in doctrine or in actuality). Rivers and lakes are barriers until someone builds a ford or a pontoon bridge. How does it change the geography of civilization, city site selection, etc. | |
| Sep 25, 2019 at 5:14 | history | edited | Snowbody | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
As per suggestions by @user535733, clarifying what I'm looking for
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| Sep 25, 2019 at 0:02 | comment | added | user535733 | There's a big difference between "God hates boats, so live with fords" and "Nothing wrong with boats, but river transport is simply uneconomic," and each will cause quite different development patterns. For example, a king can dig out a ford, severing a trade link or an invasion route (and guard the site to keep outsiders from filling it back in), so that culture will grow along only one bank of the river. Please edit your question to clarify: Do you want rivers and lakes to become nearly-impenetrable barriers? Or do you simply want to know how much earlier railways get invented? | |
| Sep 24, 2019 at 21:41 | comment | added | John | @ArkensteinXII agreed bring up a Greek watershed map and you can find a dozen major river and a slew of minor ones. | |
| Sep 24, 2019 at 20:55 | comment | added | Arkenstein XII | @AlexP The main Spartan settlement was founded on the banks of the Eurotas river. The Cephissus river, the Ilisos and the Eridanos stream are the historical rivers of Athens. | |
| Sep 24, 2019 at 19:59 | comment | added | John | @AlexP what are you talking about there are three rivers running through jerusalem, they are small but they are there. and they would have been quite a bit bigger when it was founded. | |
| Sep 24, 2019 at 19:40 | comment | added | AlexP | "Civilization grew up around river valleys": especially around the famous rivers of Greece. Quick quiz: name one river in Greece. (Fun fact: the city of Jerusalem is six thousand years old; there is no river anywhere near it. It does have a natural spring, though.) | |
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| Sep 24, 2019 at 19:19 | history | asked | Snowbody | CC BY-SA 4.0 |